{"id":3416,"date":"2023-02-16T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2023-02-16T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:21:23","slug":"beavercreek-holds-thanksgiving-meal-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2023\/02\/16\/beavercreek-holds-thanksgiving-meal-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavercreek holds Thanksgiving meal, auction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Sylvia Hess<br><em>This article first appeared in Messenger. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe to Messenger here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until the pandemic struck, a congregational Thanksgiving dinner was a tradition for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beavercreekcob1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beavercreek (Ohio) Church of the Brethren<\/a>. For the first Thanksgiving meal together since 2019, a simpler carry-in dinner was followed by an auction for Brethren Disaster Ministries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the glitch of a furnace failure (lots of space heaters were pressed into service), the event provided both fellowship and fun led by congregation member Tom Esterline as volunteer auctioneer (\u201cI don\u2019t talk fast,\u201d he said).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/02\/Beavercreek-Auction-Sylvia-Hess.jpg\" alt=\"Grandfather and grandchild with a birdhouse made to look like Rudolph\" class=\"wp-image-3418\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Rudolph wren house at Beavercreek Church of the Brethren Thanksgiving auction for Brethren Disaster Ministries. Photo by Sylvia Hess. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hand-crafted quilts, a crocheted scarf, a purse, an apron and potholder, a knit blanket, a doll, a teddy bear. One member created three seasonal table centerpieces. A grandfather and grandson built a wren house with a Rudolph theme: twigs for antlers and a red pompom nose. There were books, puzzles, gingerbread house kits, an Advent calendar, and food like pecan pie, jelly, and snack mix. A son bought the chocolate chip cookies his mother contributed \u201cbecause they are so good.\u201d Bidding was fierce on a jar of honey from a bee-keeping member. The total raised came to $800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first Thanksgiving meal together since 2019, a carry-in dinner was followed by an auction for Brethren Disaster Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[453,457,456,454,451,455],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ohio-southern-and-kentucky","tag-30-020","tag-auction","tag-bdm","tag-beavercreek-church-of-the-brethren","tag-disaster-relief","tag-thanksgiving"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}